person
Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail
Ponson du Terrail
also: Понсон-де-Терайля
French novelist, best known for his hugely popular pulp adventure series Rocambole; his "works" are jokingly listed as a Paris fair commodity alongside lace.
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §221 Ponson du Terrail
French novelist best known for the wildly popular pulp adventure series *Rocambole*; the calendar jokingly lists his "works" as a Paris fair commodity alongside lace and courtesans.
- The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §3 Translated from the French
A parody subtitle: the story mimics the lurid, cliff-hanging style of Ponson du Terrail's wildly popular French pulp-adventure serials (the Rocambole novels), which Russian readers devoured often in loose translation.